Yesterday we shared word Joe Steiger's awesome Ubuntu Unity Android theme. Whilst the theme proved popular with a great many of you - becoming one of our most tweeted posts for May - a number of you wished there was something similar for non-Android devices.
The first beta of KDE software-compilation 4.7 has been released.
Ubuntu users with laptops housing NVIDIA's "Optimus" technology, which allows Windows users to switch between Intel integrated graphics and NVIDIA's own graphics chips as and when needed, may be interested to learn of a new open-source tool which aims to enable the feature on Linux.
Users of Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 can now once again install the pre-Unity Ubuntu Netbook Interface thanks to some repackaging magic by Martin 'Doctor Mo' Owens.
It's typical: I take the weekend off and a load of great application updates slip out. So read on for a super-concise over-view of what came out, what it consisted of and, most importantly, how you can get it.
Nothing screams 'win' like Ubuntu preinstalled on some sexy hardware. Sadly the Xtreamer Ultra, a relatively new HTPC from hardware manufacturer Xstreamer, manages to lose on both fronts. Aesthetically the device is a bit on the 'functional' side of style (it looks like a PS2 reimagined as a wireless router) and the Ubuntu 10.10-based OS it ships with is... well, we'll come to that...
Wildfire games have announced the fifth alpha release of their open-source warfare game '0 A.D.'.
Dylan McCall, seemingly frustrated by the lack of refinement in packaging and promoting of sound themes for Ubuntu, has ideas on how finding and installing sound themes in Ubuntu could be made better. He's knocked up a prototype 'Sound theme gallery' where one can preview sound themes without the need to download. Also provided are download links and a quick 'how-to' on installing Sound themes in Ubuntu.
A few days ago I mused on systemd and GNOME OS, yet it seems clarity is still required on the subject.
Evolution 3.0 is finally available for Ubuntu 11.04 GNOME 3 users to install, thanks to danilo. Evolution 3.0 for GNOME 3 doesn't differ greatly from Evolution 2.x as found by default in Ubuntu 11.04 - at least not on the surface. But if you're using GNOME 3 in Ubuntu you might as well be using the latest version of its default mail application, too.
Although Ubuntu continues to adapt itself towards being user-friendly, the needs of the "advanced" user are not being forgotten. Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon proposed a rather neat idea: the creation of an Ubuntu Power Users community. Here '...the needs of folks who love to tweak, tune, customize, hot-rod and otherwise amp up their desktops' would be catered for. And that idea has received a huge welcome.
The tentative release schedule for the Ubuntu 11.10 development cycle has been made available.